The article engages with the figure of the stranger (גֵּר) in the book of Leviticus in general and Leviticus 19:33-34 in particular. References to the גֵּר are found mostly in what is traditionally known as the Holiness Legislation, which is understood as a post-Priestly text which was created as a result of an inner-biblical discussion. The Holiness Legislation came into being in the Persian period. The article starts by presenting an overview of the different occurrences of the term גֵּר in Leviticus 16-26. It attempts to show which laws are applied to the גֵּרים, what protection they are given and how they are to be treated in general. Two cases of an earlier view of the גֵּר in 19:10 and 23:22 are also pointed out, since they express a similar view of the גֵּר as the older law codes. Especially important are examples where obedience to the same laws is expected of both the גֵּרים and the Israelites, including Leviticus 16:29; 17;25; 18:26; 19:34; 24:16, 22. The article then presents an overview of the current state of the debate on the position of the גֵּר. The first issue addressed is the old argument going back to Bertholet (1896), and still very much prevalent in current scholarship, that the גֵּר was a proselyte, in other words, somebody who came from the outside and who was assimilated into the Israelite community, including the cult. The cases mentioned above of where the same thing is expected of both the אֶזְרָח and the גֵּר are good examples of texts used in the proselyte argument.